I began running the Win 7 beta on my Mac Pro back in January. I installed it on a dedicated hard drive using Bootcamp, and uploaded the Bootcamp drivers per Apple's instructions. Shortly thereafter I bought and installed VMware so I could hot switch back and forth between OS X and Win 7 (using Spaces).
A few days ago I did a clean install of the Win 7 RTM release. Since I already had VMware installed, I had it install the VMware tools, not thinking to load the Bootcamp 3.0 drivers from Snow Leopard. As it turns out, when I eventually did go to load the Bootcamp drivers, the disk didn't display the Bootcamp option. After finding the file on the disk using Windows Explorer, I tried to run it but got an error message saying 64-bit Windows wasn't supported by Bootcamp on my machine. A little research on the internet revealed that this is common with earlier Intel-based Macs, but that there ARE ways to get the drivers to load.
My question is whether there's any advantage to doing so? Everything seems to be working fine under VMware: Win 7 recognizes my Apple Cinema Display, my Mac aluminum keyboard, etc, my internal Mac optical drive plus an external Lightscribe drive I use. Is there any reason I should try to load the (unsupported) Bootcamp drivers?
A few days ago I did a clean install of the Win 7 RTM release. Since I already had VMware installed, I had it install the VMware tools, not thinking to load the Bootcamp 3.0 drivers from Snow Leopard. As it turns out, when I eventually did go to load the Bootcamp drivers, the disk didn't display the Bootcamp option. After finding the file on the disk using Windows Explorer, I tried to run it but got an error message saying 64-bit Windows wasn't supported by Bootcamp on my machine. A little research on the internet revealed that this is common with earlier Intel-based Macs, but that there ARE ways to get the drivers to load.
My question is whether there's any advantage to doing so? Everything seems to be working fine under VMware: Win 7 recognizes my Apple Cinema Display, my Mac aluminum keyboard, etc, my internal Mac optical drive plus an external Lightscribe drive I use. Is there any reason I should try to load the (unsupported) Bootcamp drivers?